Later, Dougie
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Falklands Classic Pose
Painted this 28mm MOFO figure quite a while ago, very nice to paint but I'm still a 20mm fan. This pose really says 1982!
Later, Dougie
Later, Dougie
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Goose Green memorial
A while ago I was speaking to an elderly guy at his home near to where I live in Whitley Bay. He had a photo of a Parachute Regiment officer on his sideboard which I asked him about. He very calmly and proudly told me about his son Captain Chris Dent, A Company, 2 Para who was killed at Goose Green trying to gain momentum in the attack for his battalion. Chris is buried at San Carlos and his family have a memorial just outside their home, one of the seventeen from the battle of Goose Green.
Dougie
Dougie
Monday, 11 February 2013
Top Malo House?
I haven't yet finished my 20mm Top Malo House, however when I was at Vapnartak speaking to Barrie from Timecast about his 10mm Falklands range I checked out his Top Malo House in 15mm. Now it is just about usable for 20mm and saves time scratching it, plus for about £6 its very cheap as well as being an attractive casting. The photo below shows the casting with a 20mm figure for scale. Later, Dougie.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
10mm Argentinians part 2
Some Pendraken Argies, based for CWC. Dougie
An overall view
Close up of Infantry stand
Some support stands
HQ Stands
The CO
An overall view
AAR Skirmish Sangin
Well the first Afghan engagement using Skirmish Sangin is under the belt and I'm impressed. The system is designed for 28mm figures, ultra low level with the ground scale equalling the figure scale so you have to be very careful calling in that support when the average table equates to about 100m x 100m!!!
My Afghan stuff is 20mm so it was easy enough to alter the rule distances. 1" = 2m for 28mm so you could go for 2cm = 2m or to simplefy it further 1cm = 2m, its up to you. Even in 28mm we're only looking at a 3' x 3' table.
The action took place on a 2' x 2' terrain tile with some compounds shoved on. As part of a larger engagement we had a 3PARA fire team engaged by 3 $10 Taliban. I'll apologise for the photos in advance as I haven't bothered to tidy them up. First off is a shot of the table, the Talibs wil be deploying at the small building where Abdul the goat is tethered underneath the Mulberry tree. The Brits are entering at the edge at the bottom of the shot.
The Brits deployed, although you can see the Talibs they're hidden and ain't been spotted yet.
Looking up the alley, possible dicker, is there any ICOM chatter?
The mobile's in use.
Terry kicks off the engagement missing but causing a morale check.
ICOM confirmed, an off table Brit sniper team takes out the dicker, the fire team skirmishes forward and the Tom with the UGL gets off a perfect shot killing one Talib seriously wounding a second.
At this point the fire team extracted off table, ENDEX!
I've purposely not gone in to all the rules but it played out very well, the system is detailed but quite elegant but if you have more than a couple of fireteams you're gonna need multiple players per side.
To reitterate if you're gaming Afghan buy these rules !!!
Later, Dougie
My Afghan stuff is 20mm so it was easy enough to alter the rule distances. 1" = 2m for 28mm so you could go for 2cm = 2m or to simplefy it further 1cm = 2m, its up to you. Even in 28mm we're only looking at a 3' x 3' table.
The action took place on a 2' x 2' terrain tile with some compounds shoved on. As part of a larger engagement we had a 3PARA fire team engaged by 3 $10 Taliban. I'll apologise for the photos in advance as I haven't bothered to tidy them up. First off is a shot of the table, the Talibs wil be deploying at the small building where Abdul the goat is tethered underneath the Mulberry tree. The Brits are entering at the edge at the bottom of the shot.
I've purposely not gone in to all the rules but it played out very well, the system is detailed but quite elegant but if you have more than a couple of fireteams you're gonna need multiple players per side.
To reitterate if you're gaming Afghan buy these rules !!!
Later, Dougie
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Vapnartak
Thought I'd bang a message up to update about my current painting. To be honest works been getting in the way quite a bit recently, I'm currently working solely on a comission for Mutineer Miniatures, I've done some of their 20mm Africans and Islamists as well as some AB Brits, this is all I'm working on at the moment and I'll post some photos soon. The Vapnartak title comes from a fleeting visit I made today to the show in York, I was only there for an hour or so and I only managed a very quick blast round. Mrs R. was shopping in York and I was meeting her for lunch.
As normal this was a good event some nice games and a lot of traders. I had a good natter to Barrie at Timecast and parted with some cash for 10mm Falklands terrain, cracking stuff, and interestingly their 15mm Top Malo House could be used for 20mm, I'll post a pic with a 20mm figure and you can see, as normal their huge collection of buildings and scenics is very tempting, I want a 6mm Stalingrad Grain elevator and I don't know why!
Later, Dougie
As normal this was a good event some nice games and a lot of traders. I had a good natter to Barrie at Timecast and parted with some cash for 10mm Falklands terrain, cracking stuff, and interestingly their 15mm Top Malo House could be used for 20mm, I'll post a pic with a 20mm figure and you can see, as normal their huge collection of buildings and scenics is very tempting, I want a 6mm Stalingrad Grain elevator and I don't know why!
Later, Dougie
Monday, 7 January 2013
Skirmish Sangin released !
This cracking new set of skirmish rules designed specifically for Afghanistan are now available, very impressive production, a play through following soon. You'll need a copy if your gaming Afghan!
Here's the link. Dougie
http://www.radiodishdash.com/
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